Man you wouldn't want to roll around naked in this. This is a whole field of poison ivy. This would cause some severe itching, pain, rashes and a whole lot of discomfort here.

According to WikiPedia: Toxicodendron radicans, better known as poison ivy (older synonyms are Rhus toxicodendron and Rhus radicans), is a poisonous North American plant that is well known for its production of urushiol, a clear liquid compound found within the sap of the plant that causes an itching rash in most people who touch it. The plant is not a true ivy (Hedera).

When I looked up urushiol, I found the following:

Urushiol is an oily organic allergen found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, especially Toxicodendron spp. (e.g., poison oak, poison ivy, poison sumac). It causes an allergic skin rash on contact, known as urushiol-induced contact dermatitis. The name comes from the Japanese word urushi, which denotes a lacquer produced in East Asia from the sap of the Toxicodendron vernicifluum (Lacquer Tree). The oxidation and polymerization of urushiol in the tree's sap in the presence of moisture allows it to form a hard lacquer, which is used to produce traditional Chinese and Japanese lacquerwares.

I am sure that you would get quite lacquered if you romped in the nude in the pictured field.

Only in the Bahamas would the newspaper print a photograph of a corpse in an open coffin. Most continental North American newspapers would think that it would be insensitive and maybe a little disturbing to family and friends of the deceased. Not in the Bahamas.

In this picture, a political party worker has died, and the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, and the Deputy Prime Minister are shown at the corpse's open coffin. Weird.

I was walking through the woods, and I saw this deer ravenously munching on foliage in the woods. Showing almost no fear of humans, it grazed away like a machine, eating the succulent leaves. For those of you that are wondering, this is a buck.

Email Spam Scams from my email account. First up, is a clever one that is taking advantage of the turmoil in Libya to try and get you to send your identity particulars:

Good Day.

I am William Ali, a diplomat who was working at our embassy Saudi-Arabia and was redeployed by Col. Mummar Ghadaffi to our embassy in London at the middle of the uprising that gave birth to the recent conflict engulfing the country.

From:WILLIAM ALI (cptanthony15@skymail.mn)

Presently ,am in Libya because i was recalled at the height of the conflict. I have an urgent business proposition which entails the investment of a huge sum of money in your country's economy on long term basis.Thus I am seeking your co-operation/Partnership to achieve an objective of mutual interest provided you can be trusted.The fund $50m with reference SFC 0X1/24D/2212/11, was placed in an investors Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) with Safeway Trust Funds escrow Account.

The money was deposited in the security company as personal effects because the British Government all the money lodged into the bank on the name of the Libyan Government or its officials.You have to confirm your area of business interest for consideration on possible cooperation/investment.Let me have full names address & telephone numbers upon response.

Its vital that we meet to discuss and agree on the investment and the management of the funds. Note, that i am a top Government official and i want everything confidentially handled as such if you are not, you should quietly delete this message.Looking forward to a swift response

Mr. William Ali

Tripoli - Libya

It's not very smart though, because the return email address doesn't match the name, and it comes from Mongolia.

And the Nigerians are still at it, with one claiming to be a barrister.

My name is Barrister Segun Williams, a legal attorney with great vision, I apologize for this unsolicited nature of my email, this was due to the desperation in me as I have good news for you in regards to the current development of my deceased client Mr. Richard, whose last name is same as yours and a native of your country, he died in the January 27th Bomb blast here in my country, Nigeria, I happen to be his private and most trusted attorney.

However, my client was a wealthy business tycoon formerly working with the Nigerian airways for over 20 years till this date before his sudden death in the January 27th 2002 Bomb blast that rocked his residence in Steven Toba street, G.R.A Ikeja, here in my country. On the 27th of January 2002, my client and his family here in Nigeria {Lady Lydia, Sharon, Charles and Christiana} were involved in a terrible bomb blast that took the lives of innocent souls and unfortunately over 1000 people lost their lives, my client and his family were part of these people.

my client left behind a sum of fifteen million eight hundred thousand {US$15.8 M } United States of American dollars precisely here in the First Bank of Nigeria Plc, which is the main reason why I have to contact you. I have made so many attempts to locate any of my clients relative but all attempts have proved unsuccessful, and since I have been unsuccessful in locating any living relative of my client for over 9 years now, I seek your prompt consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased because you bare the same surname with him so that the proceeds of his account valued at {USD15.8M } dollars can be transferred into your account and then you and I can share the money according to any agreed ratio as this fund is almost maturing to confiscation.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us to see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law in your country and here as well. Please provide your full names and your phone numbers in your response and be rest assured that as you comply with my directives, this transaction will be backed up with official documents endorsed by the supreme court of Nigeria to legalize the claim of this transaction.

Finally , I crave your indulgence to present you as the surviving next of kin to the deceased so that we can reap from the fruit of this old mans labour before some group of bad and corrupt leaders in my country get hold of this money for their own selfish interest instead of either donating it to the less privilege or have the fund go its legal way, I guess the best way is for the both of us to take advantage of this opportunity to the betterment of our lives and the lives of those around us including the homeless and less privileged.

This is the third video in the series of 'Men in the Kitchen' whose central theme is that men are complete idiots when it comes to meals, dishes and kitchens. Madison Avenue ad execs seem to get a lot of mileage out of exploiting the concept.

In this video, the theme of testosterone-driven showing off is explored in the kitchen.

This video is part one of the media's portrayal of Men in The Kitchen -- generally men are depicted as klutzes in the kitchen.

This one is a television ad for the Sunday Times Herald newspaper, giving away a St. John's Ambulance First Aid Kit with every new subscription. Apparently men don't know how to behave in the kitchen because being in the kitchen is a woman's job.

The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk is a book about marketing and how a company can succeed in business by caring for its customers, using social media.

I found that the book was not very engaging from the word go, and it spoke in motherhood statements with historical examples that may or may not translate into helpful strategies.

The focus to me is retail, because that is what the author knows, yet I suppose that the argument could be made that it applies to everything that requires a human being to purchase something.

However, the book is a so-so read, and a colleague of mine rated it the same way. It spoke in generalities (despite saying in the liner notes that it didn't) and didn't have a central plan that broke through the layer of abstraction that the book is. It didn't give helpful hints on the practicalities implementing what it recommended.

I would pass on this book for two reasons. First it is not very engaging and secondly it doesn't translate past the abstract into the practical.

First of all, let me explain that I don't believe in alien life forms visiting earth. I do not believe in spaceships populated by higher beings visiting earth. I do not believe that inter-galactic travel is possible.

However, I did see a glowing white flying disk over the French city of Marseilles on the Mediterranean Sea. It was not an airplane, and although it was moving, it was not moving very fast. It eventually disappeared. This is a photo of it. You can the white disk near the top of the mountain to the left of center. I have no idea what it is -- the true definition of an unidentified flying object.